Cultivator.



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' CULTIVATOB. APPLICATION FILED JUNI 17', 1913.

1,087,270. v .-Ptennealeb-g1z'1914.

mii/f JONATHAN B. Bonnin, or rennen, TEXAS.

CULTIVATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application tiled .Tune 17, 1913. Serial No. 7 74,204.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I', JoNA'rHAN B. BoLnrN, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Laniesa, in the county of Dawson and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Gultivators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for cultivating ground, an object of the invention being to produce novel means for removing weeds or the like from the ground between rows of plants, means being provided for causing the ground worked by the cultivator and cutter to be loosened so that it will actas a. protect-or to prevent evaporation of moisture from beneath while at the same time destroying foreign vegetation and the like.

The invention is designed primarily in cultivating cotton, corn and similar vegetation when in its young stage, so that the plantl growth may not be covered by the earth dislodged by the cultivator and cutter.

lith the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

1n describing the invention in detail, refer- .ence will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part. of this specification wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 illustrates a view in elevation of acultivator with the invention applied thereto; Fig. 2 illustrates a perspective view showing the cultivating teeth and cutters on an enlarged scalefandfFig. 3 illustrates a top plan view of the part of the ydevice shown in Fig. Q. Y In these drawings 4 denotes a fragment of an ordinary sulky cultivator, the Irame of which is provided with a bracket 5 having pivotally mounted thereon a toothed segment G adapt-ed to engage a pawl 7 carried bv the handle 8, the said handle 8 being` conniectedY to a pinion -9 which is likewise mounted in the bracket 5 on the pivot. 10, the said pawl being in engagement with arack 11 formed on the standard 12 which standard is guided and held in engagement with the pinion by means ofthe bracket 13.

The standard 12 is formed of two outer strips of metal 14 and the intermediate strip formingthe rack l1, the parts being connected togetherl by appropriate fastenings suc-h as 15 and the outer strips 14 at their lower ends diverge and. are then extended downwardlyT to 'form the arch 16, which is adapted to st addle or pass over the row of vegetation being cultivated. The 'lower ends of the strips 1a have the parallel guards 17 attached to them, the said guards extending rearwardly and serving to prevent the dislodged earth from falling backs on to the plants andthe length of the guards is immaterial so long as they serve the purposes indicated.

As a means for cutting'foreign vegetation such as weeds and for loosening the earth t0 be cultivated, the lower ends of the member let ha've the blades 18 secured to them by means of the fastenings 19, it being observed that the said blades 1S have upturned ends which lie against the outer surfaces of the guard plate 17, which guard plates are immediately in contact with the lower ends of the strips let so that the fastenings 19 serve to secure both the bla-des and the guards to the strips 11. The blades 1S are preferably set so that the front cutting edges are slightly lower than the rear edges, thus causing the earth to be forced up over the surfaces of the blades and to fall in the rear of said blades, thus providing sufficient agitation to disintegrate the earth and cause it to form a film-like. layer which, as stated, will, to a' great extent, prevent eva-poration. The forward cutting edges of the blades may Patentea'neb. 17, 1914. e 1

be beveled or otherwise sharpened so that y weeds and the like willl be cut. as the blades are drawn through the earth, under cul't'iva- A wardly and provided with cuttingedges at.

the front-s thereof.

'2 'Loenen 2. .In a cultivabor, a. standard oom rising extending outwardly and rearwardly fromstrps and a rack, a pinion .for engaging the the saidl standard. i K 10 aok, means `for operating the pinion, the In testimony whereof I ax my signatuve digverging ends of the strips'v forming anl arch., in the presence of two witnesses.

guides extending rearwardly from the lower f JONATHAN B. BOLDIN. ends of the strips and secured' thereto, and Witnesses: v blades having angular portions secured to J. E. GARLAND,

and carried by the said strips, said-blades J. F.; CONNER. 

